1. Whether you know or are ignorant, be brief or excuse yourself,
And anticipate whatever consequence may result.

2. No shame if my hands are idle from bounty,
How many racers have no saddle!

3. The vile were shielded while I protected my face;
He is below me so he neither spent nor was wasteful,

4. I cry for a tribe that hosted me dejected,
For tears are the settlements of settled sorrows.

5. Those whom I accompanied are gone, and I found them
Like the clouds of hope for one who wishes.

6. After them, I was afflicted with every frowning face
Neither beautiful by nature nor by ornament.

7. So curb your shyness, O Umayma, and leave
Blaming me, untie from my mind, I depart.

8. Do not deny the white hair that has touched my temples,
As if its teeth were the blades of a sharp sickle.

9. For I was pushed to sorrows that befall me,
Among them are three severe calamities combined for me:

10. Regret over the past days and confusion
In the present of it and fear of the future.

11. When I reached another time
I cried over the first time.

12. To God is a pact I have not forgotten,
The days I rebelled frivolously in my youth.

13. How often I herded this tribe, sometimes visiting
Alone, and sometimes rebelling in throngs.

14. I captured lions raging at them
And returned from the captivity of a black gazelle.

15. I shook the edges of dawn to them
In the belly of a night blended with day.

16. My camel rises like an upright tent peg
Lofty, and descends like a landslide,

17. And shakes his neck like a cane tied
With iron ears like studded pearls.

18. And his arrogance rivals the radiance of a lamp
That rose in the darkness, the dimming stars.

19. As if his snatching to the right and left
Were the course of Sirius in the barren land and Suhayl.

20. I adorned him with the bending of the bridle, so he flew with me
Faster than a shooting star, leading the night of Scatal.

21. In a boyhood where they wrapped the manes of their horses
Disheveled at the edges of worn out rugs.

22. As if the morning, asking from faces
Among them hit moisture in the legs.

23. I shoot them at the abode of the enemy and in the battle
For the love of loved ones, arrows never moistened.

24. And a twisting in beauty that does not show pleasure
Until I steady her arrow in my slaughter.

25. She went away, and her apparition remains in my sight,
As if she did not depart from her face.

26. And my deliverance from her long torment refused
A heart whenever it promises consolation, it delays.

27. Had it not been for my heart becoming attached to you
My masters, we would not have leaned nor would you be unjust.

28. But you possessed our hearts with passion
So if today you do not treat us well, it will not be beautiful.

29. I will soar to the heights with an ambition
That shoots for the stars above.

30. The soul in the homeland in which it was raised
Is like the sword that dislikes the hand of the polisher.

31. And bands who made the bands for the captives sigh
Swaying on the tree branches.

32. The plains fold behind them the sound of the guides,
With female camels whose shade did not remain.

33. They came from the elevation of Udhayb at daybreak
And dawn is like an unsmoothed metal sheet.

34. They drank from the spring of Nuqayb in the evening
And the night is an eyelid blackened with kohl.

35. They spanned the expanse of the desert, wandering,
With my brother's determinations that roam through countries.

36. What the loved ones were given from it of excuses
Except the farewell of the complaining endurer.

37. And they named the hand of the successful so it is
The cause of glory, so reward every kisser.

38. I boast about Ulya the majestic abode of the glorious Maajid
Whose awe is hidden in souls, revered.

39. Smooth are the fingers, his hand still
Connected with height and lengthening.

40. He forgives the sinner even if he does not apologize
And is generous to the healthy even if he is not asked.

41. He comforts the ears, eloquent in speech,
That holds back the bridle of the impatient rider.

42. From him, pearls overflow from his ample chest,
While pearls are scarce in the narrow stream.

43. I am amazed by a pen in your hand, how
It did not flourish with the slightest touch of those fingers.

44. What is between a nature like pouring rain,
Flowing, and a mind like blazing fire,

45. And resisting two opposites in one body
Is the cause of survival in the most equitable temperament.

46. For your protection is the defense of a twisting lion
And whoever hopes for you has copious rain.

47. So help me in the war against the ages
For it has chimed against the generous with tinkling.

48. Strife rose in which the time united with a band
And they will return to the lowliest so wait.

49. And when the course of horses ends and their
Madness ceases, the lofty rider dismounts.

50. You have become for the noble ones the most generous suitor
And your homes in banners are the strongest refuge.

51. Succor of the virtuous in an age of scoundrels
As if it is a flag raised in ignorance.

52. So favor me with your glorious position, it is
A shield, made aware of neglected rights.

53. For I was tested with the enemies in a position
Neither inhabitable dwelling nor transferable.

54. In a band who abandoned cordiality so their homes
Have little access for visitors.

55. Their roads grew distant and few are my questioners,
And mending the water's depth and rope tying.

56. So intercede to the generosity of the pure one, for
In your hands is the key to the locked success.

57. For it is he whose gifts of palm
Are like the sun, brightening when it rises, inclusive.

58. No wonder if my hopes prove true after
My hand held to the exceptional, generous one.

59. So respond even if the vile are silent, for
The valleys are praised in each populated year.

60. And have a happy upcoming feast, and may you be granted the
Blessings, and live in the shade of an upcoming ancestor.